BIO:  EDWARD W. WITTER, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
   
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  >From Biographical Annals of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania,
  Chicago: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905, page 814
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    EDWARD W. WITTER, for a number of years a successful and responsible
  citizen of Good Hope, Hampden township, Cumberland county, was born in Adams
  county, Pa., Jan. 22, 1851, a son of George Witter, and grandson of Samuel
  Witter. The latter was the father of five children, but aside from that there
  appears to be no definite record of him.

    George Witter was born in Adams county, and there received a common school
  education, and at the same time learned the trade of a tanner. He married
  Sarah Saultzgever, of Adams county, and eight children were born to them:
  Elizabeth married Benjamin Eicholtz, and lives at Oxford; George married Anna
  Miller, and lives at New Chester, Adams county; Samuel, who married Fannie
  Burtman is a merchant of Columbus., Ohio; David is deceased; Jacob,
  who married Barbara Cunrod, is retired and lives at Boiling Springs; Matilda
  married Joseph Palmer and lives near New Chester; Harry married Miss Mary
  Spong, and is employed by the Cumberland Valley railroad company; Edward W.
  is our subject.

    Edward W. Witter, like his father, was educated in the public schools of
  Adams county. In 1871 he moved to Cumberland county, locating at Good Hope,
  and there learned the trade of a blacksmith, which he has followed for over
  thirty years. In the spring of 1904 he sold out and moved to Adams county. On
  Nov. 12, 1874, he was married to Miss Mary Ellen Wertz, a daughter of Solomon
  and Mary (Lininger) Wertz, and four children were born to them: Florence
  married William Adams, of Hampden township; George married Minnie Fake and
  lives near Fairview; Cora married Irvin Fishel, a miller of Hampden township,
  and they have one child, Chester; Effie is at home.

    In sentiment Mr. Witter has been a life-long member of the Democratic
  party, but he casts his vote for the man he deems best fitted for the office
  in question. Having been industrious, hard-working and thrifty, he succeeded
  in his business, and gained the confidence and respect of his fellow townsmen
  during his long residence in Good Hope.